Insightful Wisconsin Yoga Retreat

Come learn the beginning steps of these ancient practices in a supportive, comfortable, and beautiful space. Yoga is a way to balance and ease stress. Meditation helps you to find peace, healing and renewal. You can experience mindfulness through meditation and yoga techniques with Bill Miller and Cecilia Corcoran, FSPA, Ph. D. Give yourself the gift of a life lived in greater harmony in this retreat.

Retreat highlights

Daily yoga classes

Breathing practices

Daily meditation practices

Morning chanting and stretches

2 nights’ accommodation

Daily delicious meals

Skill level

Beginner

Yoga styles

Accommodation

The Christine Center was created in the spirit of simplicity, stillness and beauty. The staffs will receive you with deep hospitality and will do everything they can to make your stay what you require.

Hermitage

You will be staying at one of the rustic or modern hermitages in Christine Center. Each of the 16 hermitages is unique and hand-crafted. All hermitages have electricity and one to five beds. The modern hermitages have gas or electric heat, a bathroom with shower and furnished kitchenette.

Rustic hermitages have gas or wood stoves for heating and a port-a-potti. The all-modern, beautiful siloe bathroom and laundry facility (pronounced: sill o way) for rustic hermitage guests and campers has separate women’s and men’s sections.

Dining room

The dining room is a work of art with handmade cabinetry, original paintings, a handmade quilt as wall hanging and handmade fabric art panels gliding gracefully across the pine ceiling. A bank of windows and skylights lets in sunshine. During warm months there’s dining on the patio accompanied by hummingbirds and flowers. Coffee and tea service and fruit are always available in the dining room.

Mary of the Angels Chapel

Mary of Angels Chapel is in the round with a soaring pine ceiling and with beautiful stained-glass windows designed by Eau Claire, Wisconsin artist, Laurie Biezi. The chapel holds Christine Center’s recently donated complete set of crystal singing bowls.

Meditation Hall

If the exquisite round hall is not being used, you are welcome to use this beautiful space to meditate, practice yoga, and read. Twice-daily meditation practice takes place at 7 a.m. for 1 hour and at 5 p.m. for 30 minutes (except Sunday). Everyone is welcome.

Christine Center’s Meditation and Yoga Wisconsin Program

Friday

19:00 Introductions: “How We Come to This Exploring the Body / Breath / Mind Connection: Yoga” and “Begin or Beginning Again to Reach for Inner Calm: Meditation”

Saturday

09:00 “The Way to Begin: Yoga for Stress Reduction and Body Awareness” and “Breathing into Meditation: Being Present to your Deepest Self Back, Hips, and Knees”

12:30 Lunch

15:00 “Letting the Body Lead the Soul: Meditation”

17:30 Supper

18:30 “Loving Kindness Meditation” with Sister Henrita Frost and wrapping the day in Gentle yoga

Sunday

08:00 Breakfast

09:00 Closing circle, yoga review and meditation

Goals

Improve balance

Increase flexibility and strength

Experience mindfulness through meditation and yoga techniques

Decrease tension and find harmony through the use of yoga and meditation technique.

Retreat location

This retreat will take place in Wisconsin, USA.

Food

Buffet-style meals at the Christine Center are homemade with fresh, natural whole foods, grown locally and organic when available. Most are vegetarian. You often hear lots of “oh wow, this is incredible” floating through the dining room. You are welcome to join the other guests for home-cooked meals or stay in a modern hermitage with a furnished kitchen and bring your own food, or do some of both.

You’re invited to join the community in mealtime conversations. If you would prefer your meals in solitude, two hallways with lots of sunlight extend from the dining room with small tables. In warm weather there are tables on the patio.

Christine Center emphasizes natural foods and meals made from scratch. Many of the vegetables, fruits, breads, honey, maple syrup, and eggs served are from the organic gardens from local farmers. The herb garden is year-round made possible from the passive solar windows.

The cooks bring unique creativity and style. Christine Center celebrates the vegetarian specialist, down home cooking authorities, and food intuitive who prepare nurturing dishes. The food on the tables has a sense of inner spiritual nourishment in harmony with the land.

Exclusions

At the time you make your reservation, let Christine Center know any food restrictions. Christine Center provides gluten free, vegan, and dairy free diets. If you have severe food allergies they may be unable to accommodate you in the dining room. You are welcome to bring your own food and stay in a modern hermitage with kitchenette. If you choose accommodations without a refrigerator, you may store a few specialty food items in the dining room refrigerator.

Things to do (optional)

Reading at Bela Maroti Library

The library is a first-rate collection of a wide-range of spirituality titles. There are two computer stations with printers, plus Wi-Fi. A comfortable, quiet, contemplative space for reflection with lots of morning sun.

Shopping at Spirit Jewel Bookstore and Gifts

The shop is small but mighty. They stock a wide range of subjects on spirituality. In addition, they also have beautiful handmade bookmarks, original art work, handmade jewelry, and contemplative items, as well as a choice of journals and notebooks, colored pencils, incense, and hand-crafted soaps.

Spirit Jewel Bookstore is located along the corridor on the way to the library and chapel. A comfortable chair and lighting allow for browse and sit sessions. Fresh books arrive every week or so, and free books are replenished monthly.

Spirit Jewel Bookstore offers books on Christian mystics, contemporary Buddhism, contemporary spirituality, Jungian dreams, science / eco-spirituality, First Nations, yoga / body awareness, St. Hildegard of Bingen, writing as spiritual practice, mandala / intuitive arts, and many other topics and 500 or so titles, and a children’s section for books to enjoy with and to inspire the little ones in your life.

Visiting the intuitive art studio

Once you’re given a tour and instructions from a resident artist, S. Gabriel Uhlein, OSF, PhD, you’re free to use the studio anytime the muse calls to you day or night.

Walking on meditation trails

Christine Center offers marked trails for hiking briskly or meditation, cross-country skiing, and snowshoeing. One stretch of the trail is now a board-walk for walking in wet weather.

Spa treatments

Bodywork or massage is available on request, and it is not included in the price. Please make arrangements before you come with Roberta Hodges, who lives within a brief walk from the center.

What's included

2 nights’ accommodation

Breathing practices

Daily delicious meals

Daily meditation practices

Daily yoga classes

Morning chanting session and stretches

How to get there

Driving directions from Northwest (Twin Cities, Eau Claire)

Option 1

Take I-94 East into Wisconsin to Exit 88, east of Eau Claire.

Take Highway 10 east (Exit 88) at the Osseo exit.

Take Highway 10 east for 15 miles.

Turn left (north) on County Road I (as in ice cream) just east of Fairchild at the electric power station and drive 14.7 miles.

Turn left (north) on County Road G and drive 1 mile.

Watch for the Christine Center sign on your left.

Turn left (west) on Mann Road and drive to the Christine Center.

Option 2

Take I-94 into Wisconsin.

Take Highway 29 East (Exit 52).

Take County Road M South (right) at Thorp (Exit 108) approximately 15 miles.

Turn left (east) at County Road GG and drive 4 miles.

Turn right (south) drive through Willard.

From Willard, drive 2.5 miles. Watch for the Christine

Center sign on your right.

Turn right (west) on Mann Road and drive to the Christine Center

Driving directions from Soutwest (LaCrosse, Wisconsin)

Take I-90 east to exit 25 at Sparta.

Turn left (north) on Highway 27 to Black River Falls.

Highway 12 and 27 merge in Black River Falls.

Follow Highway 12 / 27 through Black River Falls and continue another 22 miles to Highway 10.

Turn right (east) on Highway 10 and then an immediate left (north), at the electric power station, on County I (as in ice cream) and drive 14.7 miles.

Driving directions from the East (Appleton)

Take Highway 10 west to the Highway 10 and County Road BB roundabout intersection just south of Marshfield.

Cross the intersection and continue on County Road BB west for 2 miles.

Turn right (north) at County Road B and drive 2 miles.

Turn left (west) on County Road H. Continue west. Cross Highway 73.

County Road H merges with County Road G. Continue west on County Road G.

At the intersection of County Road G and County Road I (as in ice cream), turn right on County Road G and drive 1 mile. Watch for the Christine Center sign on your left.

Turn left (west) on Mann Road and drive to the Christine Center.

Driving directions from the Southeast (Chicago, Milwaukee, Madison)

Drive west on I-94.

Take Black River Falls, Exit 115 (Highway 12 / 27) approximately 2 hours north of Madison.

Turn right (north) on Highway 12 / 27.

Follow Highway 12 / 27 about 30 minutes to Highway 10.

Turn right (east) on Highway 10; take an immediate (1 block) left (north), at the electric power station, on County I (as in ice cream) and drive 14.7 miles.

Turn left (north) on County Road G and drive 1 mile.

Watch for the Christine Center sign on the left.

Turn left (west) on Mann Road and drive to the Christine Center.

Arrival by airplane

Flights are available into the Minneapolis International Airport (MSP), Central Wisconsin Airport (CWA), and Chippewa Valley Regional Airport (EAU). Christine Center can arrange to pick you up and drop you off.

Arrival by bus

The closest bus station is in Eau Claire. Christine Center can arrange to pick you up and drop you off.

Arrival by train

The closest Amtrak station is about 1.5 hour’s drive in Tomah, Wisconsin. Christine Center can arrange to pick you up and drop you off.

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